Leanne Ford Instagram – “She knows there’s no success like failure” — Bob Dylan The first time I heard it — that lyric flew out of the song to me like a kiss and a firecracker in one. I Grabbed my pencil and wrote it down immediately. I’ve been writing it down ever since. There’s a common theme to everything I love, everything I appreciate, everything I create, and everyone I respect — the acceptance and the embrace of failure. With messy open arms! If there’s no failure, there’s no progress. People look at my career and think it’s lightly floated up up and away just as planned on a perfect little elevator. The truth is, it’s been mostly failures with a few big wins in between. Truly. failures are behind the spotlight (or not),pushing you right toward the successes. It’s the whole stumbling forward thing. And, boy oh boy, have I stumbled. But The adventure of what’s on the other side has always been so worth it.Some things work and some things don’t. And that’s okay by me! I’m happy to weed them out. Happy to cross them off the to-do list, if you will. @FEELFREE Magazine Volume 5! On all major newsstands in the US and Canada (!). Link to buy in our bio. // #LeanneFordInteiors shot by @sarahbarlow for @FEELFREE Magazine